Best of the year: Science fiction. Space action movie. Cyberpunk: An Anthology of Contemporary Foreign Prose (2004) / Ed. G. Dozois; Per. from English K. Vasilyeva, A. Guzman, V. Dvinina and others. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004). Edited by Gardner Dozois

The annual collections “The Year's Best”, published in the USA for more than fifteen years, publish stories, short stories, essays selected from around the world, and to be among their authors is no less prestigious than win the World Fantasy Award or the Nebula. Giant starships silently swallowing parsec after parsec in the endless night, robots that look like clumsy armored crabs, the intricate labyrinths of “cyberspace,” strange mechanisms that give people power over Time itself. According to Western tradition, all this is called “Science Fiction”, science fiction. The best examples of this trend are collected on the pages of Gardner Dozois's annual anthology. The most successful stories by leading authors working in the genre of cyberpunk, dystopia, space action - Harry Turtledove, Michael Swanwick, John Varley, Vernor Vinge and many others. For the first time, the famous anthology is published in Russian. Twenty-nine brilliant examples of short prose are placed under one cover in order to introduce the reader to the most striking new products of the genre.

William Barton “Flight on a Spaceship”, John Kessel “It’s All True”, Charles Stross “The Wandering Farm” , Stephen Popkes "Ice", Nancy Kress "A-ES", John Varley "The Ringer", Judith Moffett "Little Bear", Howard Waldrop "Call by Name", Christina Catherine Rush "The Sixteenth of June at Anne's", Walter John Williams "Green The Leopard Plague”, Paolo Bacigalupi “The Flute Girl”, Jack Skillingstead “Dead Worlds”, Michael Swanwick “The Dragon King”, Paul Melko “The Love of Singles”, M. Shane Bell “The Anomalous Structures of My Dreams”, Vernor Vinge “Cookie- Monster", Harry Turtledove "Joe Steele", Jeff Ryman "Birthdays", John C. Wright "Sleepless in the Night", James Van Pelt "The Long Way Home", Jeffrey A. Landis "The Eyes of America", Cage Baker "Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst”, Robert Reed “In the Darkness of Time”, William Shann “Miracle Cure”, Dominic Greene “Mentagra”, Paul Di Filippo “And the Fork and Plate Ran Away”, Terry Dowling “Liquidators”, Nick Dicario “Snakehead” ", Terry Bisson "Dear Abbey."